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Cheers Adrian bud! You,Melvin and Karl have certainly set my expectations high when it comes to the crown lol!

Epic Karl, what dreams are made of! This is the result, that just keeps giving! The decision to do the widdows peak really was a masterstroke and along with the temples, really just put the icing on cake on what has been a fantastic journey. You really where the person that made all us high norwoods think the impossible is possible.. and you continue to keep doing so!

13 Month/6 Month Crown Update Just posting an update on the crown given I’m at the six-month mark. I feel like there has been a lot of growth occurring over the past month. But I am finding that the left side is growing and maturing quicker than the right side, hopefully, it will soon catch up. For the update, I combed the front forward to better show the crown, but in reality, I’m slicking this hair back, which is providing good coverage. I

Cheers Adam! Hard to believe it was over five months since we where in India! I cant wait to see where you will be in seven months time, especially as your month five update is just mind blowing! You going to be in 2023 Hall of Fame that is for sure!

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I'm not worrying bro. Think you're preaching to the wrong guy bud! I've helped my fair share of dudes this past twelve months, my HRN inbox and Instagram page are full of people i've helped and even been thanked on several HRN threads for doing so. Anyways, good luck with your journey

Me personally think another pass at Eugenix you would have looked great. But I look forward in seeing how Dr Bisanga takes this case forward. Docs might have a good professional relationship, but Hair Restoration is a business, and you saying that one clinic was filming vids (whether for educational purposes not) about another clinic with strong criticisms is never going to down well on both sides. I can't imagine Dr Pradeep will be best pleased about it nor will Dr Bisanga be pleased your outing his criticisms on a public domain viewed by other docs, which where likely said in confidence between you both during a private consult. I'm not having a dig at you here btw, I know you are genuinely seeking a good looking natural end result.

Looking back at your thread, I do feel at your first sitting there was possibly a bit of hope that the meds would rescue the tonne of miniaturised hair you have. I can see the doctors logic by not wanting to implant in area where there is lots of miniaturised hair and risk permanent shock loss. I don't think it looks as bad as you think. Now that you have given yourself a year on dut and there has been no improvement to the miniaturised hair, I think now you can now formulate a solid plan and work on the basis it wont recover. Though I have a huge respect for Dr Bisanga, I personally don't agree with some his sentiments i.e about your temple looking unnatural (I think it looks really natural). Also him wanting to do a video on you titled "how not to make HT in Caucasian male". To me there feels an air of trying to do one over a competitor clinic here, a very extreme/unnecessary tactic, when in reality your result is only at pass one out of two passes . Looking at your hair characteristics they are close to mine, beard included. I honest think that adding your remaining scalp grafts with 2500 beard you will honestly look great. I know you didn't factor in a two stage plan (or was led to believe you would need one), but I think you goals will be met.

Very impressive! Like how he has replicated the offset crown whirl so well!

Many Thanks Rafael, yes just short of five months with the crown! They did actually take from below the lateral humps area on my first sitting (they utilised most of my donor area), so reassuring to see how thick it is looking now, also a good sign that the finasterisde is working to keep the area stable. Be interesting to assess where I am in six months and understand if third sitting is necessary, or just pure greed.

Cheers Ryan bud! You're probably right tbh, a third pass to focus on the density will most probably be what i'll do (should I need).

Month 12 Update. So it’s been exactly a year since I had my Hair Transplant at Eugenix in March 2022. It’s quite hard to put into words how I feel, but it has just been a pleasure to see my hair grow back. There are often moments where I just stand in front of the mirror shaking my head with amazement, and questioning if this is all a dream. I didn’t realise how much impact baldness had on many areas of my life until I reflect and compare it. But I have certainly gained more confidence now from looking at my age. I want to offer my highest thanks to Dr Sethi and the Eugenix team, when I first contacted the clinic in late 2020, I had come off from a bruising from a good few forum recommended Doctors, who told me that I was not a candidate for a hair transplant and destined me to a life of baldness. But credit to Eugenix they just don’t find problems and gave me the reassurance I could achieve a good result. So I hope my results go a long way for gents who have been denied a shot a surgery, that it is possible in the hands of a capable clinic. Results-wise, the front and mid-scalp have reached their peak. But the decision by Dr Sethi to put grafts behind the temples and above the humps in the second sitting is paying off. It allows me to pull off a parting style, which was always the style I wanted to do. The crown is starting to fill in and each month, I’m seeing less and less scalp. The donor just continues to blow my mind, being an NW7 my biggest fear was a patchy-looking donor, but 5.8K scalp grafts later I’m getting my hair cut with 1 guard with very little detection of a transplant. Going forward, I’ll probably use this as my last update for the front and mid-scalp, as you can see there isn’t a whole lot of change happening now. Given the success so far I do keep flirting with the idea of slightly lowering the hairline and maybe getting a widow's peak, so a third sitting next year could well be on the cards, but need to give the crown 12 months before pulling the trigger.

100% The Simspons nail this quite well on the episode titled 'Simpson and Delilah'. Portrays all the clichés of being a bald man who goes on to get hair. Even more hilarious that they call the hair loss medicine 'Dimoxinil'. A well worth watch if you haven't already!

Cheers Gents! Crazy to think how fast the industry has evolved over the past few years! I think to most people it's clear as day i've had a hair transplant (being a slick bald NW7 you really can't hide it). but the common comment I get off people is how much younger I look (which also makes me think how old was I looking before the transplant 😆). The thing i've probably noticed the most since having the HT is how much more people approach me and engage in conversation, for example I find work colleagues and strangers are just generally making more conversation with me and are just that little bit more friendlier & politer. I mean this could just be a by-product of the increased confidence i've got from having hair, but something i've personally noticed.

Cheers! Know that feeling well! You just have to remind yourself this hair restoration game is marathon and not a sprint (especially for us high norwoods). I've given myself a two/three year programme to achieve the result I want and factored in that I could need three passes. I guess what distracts me is knowing each day i'm closer to where I want to be!

Dude is welcome here, I’ve done my best to answer all his questions! Hadnt appreciated just how new the account was on HRN, but I have to agree with Melvin 310 posts in 11 days when you havent even posted a result is defo suspect. Can’t prove it, but defo suspicious! Strikes me as trying to quickly build a credible account.

I suppose that works when justifying hair loss meds!

I guess another analogy would be .. you don't insure your home with the intention of getting burgled! i.e. you are not saving grafts with the intention of of going more bald, but say you did it nice to know you have something!

I suppose to give full context, you have to appreciate where I started from. Plus ive got another 100 grafts coming through just behind the temple. Its night and day difference if you ask me! I wouldn't want to change anything with it.

Finasteride is only effective at slowing down the hair loss, so over time I could go balder, sides may drop, crown may dips lower and wider ect. My final pattern may look established now, but going bald so young opens up the door for hair loss further on in life (potentially). So I do totally understand the case of saving grafts. That said I do think it is unlikely my hair pattern will progress, and at the first sign I would jump on dut anyway, so I am cool with using up the grafts sooner than later. Lets see how this crown grows anyway, I may not even need a third sitting.

Every person and case is different. But that said, GeneralEtwan used the same exact same amount grafts in his first sitting as I did in mine, just those grafts where distributed over the full scalp area, but he still needs a second sitting to improve density and add to the crown and humps (should he wish to of course). I could have had my 5300 grafts from my first sitting used all over my scalp, as opposed to focusing on the front and mid-scalp. Ultimately our end goals are identical, just we chose different routes to get there. Agree with your point about banking the scalp grafts for a touch up later on in life. I suppose they do say Greed is one of the seven deadly sins.

Far too risky. I've had 5.8k scalp grafts to date, and doing that one sitting would just be a no no!

It's a fair point, also worth adding that i've had 100 grafts behind each temple, which over the coming month will help with aesthetics. Without starting a lengthy debate on temple design (as we know it's quite well covered on this forum) but I do think the asymmetry on my temples helps with the naturalness .

I do get what you mean, its because the crown dips. Crown dipping is usually associated with much higher hair loss grades, so by completely restoring the front first it doesn't follow a natural NW pattern. On reflection and theoretically speaking, say I was going to put off my second sitting (maybe by a couple of years),then restoring the front & mid scalp and the lower crown in the first sitting, would allow for a more natural looking hair loss pattern (similar to a NW3 Vertex). But as I did the two sitting six months apart, I can live with this small inconvenience. If i was really bothered I probably could do a 1 guard all over the back and sides as i'm in a fortunate position that my scaring is very hard to detect.

Cheers Bud! Temple-wise I agree I think there getting over-analysed, nothing wrong with that and I love that people are taking the time to look at my results such detail. But me personally, I love how they look and will not be doing any corrections or touch ups on them!